An article by the Guardian’s former Mid-East editor Ian Black included the claim that the latest round of violence between Israel and terrorists in Gaza was triggered by the Israeli shooting of Palestinian protesters on Friday.

“The immediate trigger for this round of violence was the now routine shooting of Palestinians on the border with Israel…”

However, as we noted in a May 8th post responding to the claim by Black, every British media outlet we reviewed – including the Guardian’s own Jerusalem correspondent – was clear in their coverage that the mini-war was started by the shooting of an Israeli soldier by an Islamic Jihad terrorist in Gaza.

We contacted the Guardian’s readers’ editor, who upheld our complaint and amended the article accordingly.

It now reads:

“The immediate trigger for this round of violence was the wounding of two Israeli soldiers on the Gaza border…”

Farmer’s typical anti-Semitic “Israel fires back first” mentality. Terrorists send airbone IEDs into Israel and fire on Israeli troops, as has been well documented. If Israelis fire back, then vile anti-Semites like Farmer complain about Israeli snipers.

Most of the world averages about 100 civilians to 1 combat (except for NATO in Kosovo which was more than 1,000 to 1). The forces in Iraq and Afghanistan was about 10 to 1, US forces got down to 3 to 1. Israel more like 0.25 to 1.

So when the rest of the world gets somewhere near Israel’s ratio – you can talk. Otherwise shut the fuck up moron